Hello.

My English is not very good. So upload a photo. A picture is worth a thousand words. I hope it helps. I still do not test. I've seen on a Russian forum, I think.

Greetings.

i guess most of the people here know it very well
but few only succeeded with good results @ the end

and btw, i know the one (group) who developed it, Russian for sure as u mentioned

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Has anyone tried to change the crystal oscillator? I have repaired many USB devices that were not recognized. And the problem was the crystal oscillator. It's just a question

xose_maria,

What are the symptoms?

Does your drive spin up?

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On a pendrive or MP3, maybe. On HDDs, almost never (unless it was scraped away).

Only ever on 1" Seagate Microdrive I have had success. Never on traditional HDD.

Hello,

Yes, my drive spin up but is not recognized. I tried to do this



and now it recognizes it but nothing happens.

In another post you had said it was necessary to remove the capacitors do not know if this applies to this hard drive.I do not know if I'm writing well. My english is not good.

Yes, you need to remove the capacitors. Doing so will prevent the USB-SATA bridge IC from interfering with communications.

That said, you will then have a problem with encryption, assuming the drive is OK.

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Hello, I have removed the capacitors and voilaaa! I can access the data.

Thank you very much to all members of this great forum

Is there no encryption ???

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xose_maria, can you post the pinouts here so that I may try that with my drive.

Can you not recognise the pinouts from the photo?

What more do you need? :o

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Apparently not.

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No data encryption. I was lucky

PS. I like your avatar. Is familiar to me.

I'm aware that WD provides non-encrypted versions on special order. Does your board have an Initio INIC-1607E bridge IC, or is it something else?


Unfortunately it's also appropriate. :-)

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WD Elements are not encrypted. Passports and most MyBooks are.

No special order required.

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Ah, that explains it. All the posts talked about Passports, not Elements.

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can you post a picture of the capacitor to be removed?

nevermind.. problem solved..

most problem on external Harddrives is the mini usb connectors that tends to lose connection due to frequent plugging in and out of the usb cable..

what happend to my external WD element 500gb was, literally the mini usb connector was taken off its place..

solution:

sold it back, or make extensions, 5 wires(shielded i recommend) is all u need and sold it from the board to the connector.. thats it.. ^_^

thanks..

Hi everyone !

I'm new, I apologise before for my english (I'm French).

I have the same problem, my drive spin up but it is not reconize, the light is working.

I tried to do as xose_maria, as you can see on the picture below but I miss a point (in red on my picture to connect the middle pin on the connector)

My second point is about the capacitors that we need to remove... which ones are they ?

Thank you for your help you are my last hope for those data ...